Swithin
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Henry Travers was in The Sisters with Donald Crisp.
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On 4/20/2021 at 10:26 AM, cinecrazydc said:
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Have to admit I’ve never seen this. Anything described as “British” and “bawdy” feels like homework. Obviously, I’m not alone. When’s the last time anyone talked about Tom Jones?
His comments about Tom Jones and, basically, his lack of understanding of 18th Century British literature, are stupid. Tom Jones is a great movie and deserved its Oscar.
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Michael Collins (1996)
Next: Post office
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My only major quibbles with Oscar's choices in the 1940s are for 1940, when The Grapes of Wrath should have won over Rebecca; and in 1944, when Wilson should have won over Going My Way.
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5 hours ago, AndreaDoria said:
I'm just catching up on this thread, way behind, but wanted to say I live in Ohio half way between Columbus and Cincinnati, thought Jim Jordan was some sort of comic parody when I first heard him speak, but my son said he was real, hated The Piano, love Fargo, own 3rd Rock, yes Julie Andrews looked particularly beautiful in that clip, and I thought I was the only person in the world who liked, Fear Thy Neighbor! Yes! Going to watch it right now.
Well I never imagined that I had anything in common with Jim Jordan, but if he hated The Piano, I guess I do. 😉
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Every Day's a Holiday (1937)
Next: Tablecloth
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On Svengoolie tomorrow, April 24, 2021:
Not again! Rather tedious television movie. The ending was done much more effectively some years later, on the "Home" episode of The X-Files.
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I saw a production of Death of a Salesman at the Young Vic in London a couple of years ago. The Loman family was black. It was a wonderful production, with Wendell Pierce, Sharon D. Clarke, and Arinze Kene. They added some spirituals for mood, and it totally worked.
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1 hour ago, slaytonf said:
Apropos of all-black casts, I saw Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway in Hello, Dolly! in her roadshow. Even though I was way too young to fully appreciate it, I was still blown away by her performance. I can't imagine anyone doing as good in the role.
I saw that production and thought it was great. At the curtain call, Pearl Bailey came out and made a very odd speech. We didn't know what she was talking about. She made some reference to something happening, and the cast wasn't sure what to do. My friend and I -- we were teenagers -- went to the stage door to get her autograph, and she told us that during the show that evening, the cast found out that Martin Luther King Jr. had just been shot.
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On 4/21/2021 at 5:00 PM, CinemaInternational said:
There was an all-Black revival of Cat on Broadway around 2008. I have an internet friend who went to that version and he said that it didn't quite come off, That said he liked seeing James Earl Jones as Big Daddy saying that when he made his first entrance, the audience went crazy.
I thought it was pretty good. Anika Noni Rose as Maggie was brilliant.
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Ann Doran was in The Man Who Turned to Stone with Charlotte Austin.
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16 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:
She was one of the most talented character actresses of the Golden Age and he was an avant garde director. Both were blacklisted.
Gale Sondergaard won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "Anthony Adverse" and was the outstanding supporting performer in Bette Davis' "The Letter". Sherlock Holmes fans like myself enjoyed her performance as the "Spider Woman" in two Universal features starring Basil Rathbone.
Her husband was Herbert J Biberman. He directed the original production of "Green Grow the Lilacs"on Broadway in 1931. It was the play that Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" was based on.
In 1954 he broke ground in the neo realism movement with a film called "Salt of the Earth", which depicted the working class struggle from a feminist perspective. To get the neo realistic feel, the cast was mixed with professional actors and actual workers.
That's right Princess. The distinction was that her Supporting Actress Oscar was in 1936, the year that category was introduced, so she was the first to win. She actually played in two Spider Woman movies, but the second was not a Sherlock Holmes/Basil Rathbone film, but a very odd horror film called The Spider Woman Strikes Back.
Your thread now, Princess!
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This couple included an Oscar-winning actress with a particular distinction; and a director who made one of the seminal films of its type. Wife played the same eponymous role in two films, although the characters were actually not the same, despite the titular reference. She also played a crucial supporting role in a very famous movie in which she hardly has any lines.
In addition to husband's seminal film, he directed a play which was later adapted into a landmark Broadway musical.
Name the couple and the films and play referenced in the clues.
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"Jubilee" -- performed by Louis Armstrong in Every Day's a Holiday (1937)
(Song starts around the 50 second mark.)
Next: Song mentioning a type of tree
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1 hour ago, Princess of Tap said:
Good Show!
Yes, Jane is definitely the Renaissance American woman, so she had to make a splash in French Cinema.
A vous M. Swith,
Merci, Princesse. At first I posted Shelley Winters and Vittorio Gassman, since there are similarities (actress with two Oscars/he was foreign and directed a few films; etc.), but then I realized Shelley was not from Hollywood royalty. Back later with the next clues.
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Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim. He presented her in Barbarella. She excelled in Cat Ballou; he directed Blood and Roses. She won an Emmy for The Dollmaker.
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Taia -- played by Judith Evelyn in The Egyptian (1954)
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12 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Came across this just now and thought some of you might find it interesting. usually these annoy me, but I'm not too mad at this list, other than to say DON'T LOOK NOW suuuuuuuuuuuucks and THE WICKER MAN should have been in the TOP TEN.
What an interesting list, thanks! And Don't Look Now most certainly does NOT suck!
I agree that A Passage to India -- Lean's masterpiece -- should be on the list. Also although it's nice to see a Carry On film on the list, they didn't pick the best one (though I do like the one that they did select).
And although I have thoughts about many of the selections -- and omissions , I do have to say, that Brazil, a load of pretentious twaddle, is possibly the worst film I've ever seen.
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Frank Morgan was in The Mortal Storm with Rudolph Anders.
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Sharon Baird (was a Mouseketeer and later appeared as Eugene/Ratboy in the 1986 movie Ratboy).
Next: Regal
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More Sylvia Miles:
Heat (1972)
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
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Take care, if they're nitrate prints they're extremely and dangerously flammable.
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More New England towns with secrets:
City of the Dead (1960)
The Haunted Palace (1963)
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The Devil Is a Woman (1935) -- Based on the same novel as the Bunuel film.
Moby Dick (1956) -- more about obsession
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My favorite Dom DeLuise role is in Mel Brooks' The Twelve Chairs. He is hilarious!